Bug 400665

Summary: Wireless lan is dead iwl3945
Product: [openSUSE] openSUSE 11.0 Reporter: Juergen Weigert <jw>
Component: NetworkAssignee: Helmut Schaa <hschaa>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact: E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity: Normal    
Priority: P5 - None CC: behlert
Version: Final   
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Hardware: x86   
OS: openSUSE 11.0   
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Description Juergen Weigert 2008-06-16 21:02:02 UTC
Lenovo X60s,
The wlan led does not come to live. The hardware wlan switch is on.
The iwl3945 module is loaded, 

dmesg says this, when I rmmod, modprobe iwl3945:
iwl3945: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 3945ABG/BG Network Connection driver for Linux, 1.2.23ks
iwl3945: Copyright(c) 2003-2007 Intel Corporation
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:03:00.0[A] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:03:00.0 to 64
iwl3945: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection
iwl3945: Tunable channels: 13 802.11bg, 23 802.11a channels
phy1: Selected rate control algorithm 'iwl-3945-rs'
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:03:00.0[A] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready

$ iwconfig wlan0
wlan0     IEEE 802.11a  ESSID:""  
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:5.7 GHz  Access Point: 00:0B:86:C2:0B:F0   
          Tx-Power=16 dBm   
          Retry min limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr=2352 B   
          Encryption key:off
          Link Quality:0  Signal level:0  Noise level:0
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0


Under 10.3 the same machine used ipw3945 flawlessly.
Comment 1 Helmut Schaa 2008-06-18 06:43:01 UTC
Juergen, did you use NetworkManager or ifup (Yast)?

The non-working LED is a known issue and is already fixed in 2.6.26 but the patch will not be in 11.0.
Comment 2 Juergen Weigert 2008-06-18 09:19:52 UTC
I am using NetworkManager.
It is not only that the LED does not come up, I see no traffic, and cannot connect.
Comment 3 Helmut Schaa 2008-06-18 16:28:50 UTC
Juergen, I close this one as FIXED now as we got Novell-Guest working. For the Novell network which uses WPA-EAP security please refer to bug #396347.

Feel free to reopen this bug if you experience a similar issue again :)